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Chelsea fans won\u2019t be hugely encouraged by the revelation that Mauricio Pochettino didn\u2019t really know what the BlueCo \u201cplan\u201d was despite spending a year as their head coach.<\/p>\n
Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali rode in as white knights in May 2022 following Roman Abramovich\u2019s enforced departure as owner as the heads of a consortium which was later dubbed BlueCo to grant as a neat moniker with which to tear their disastrous reign to shreds.<\/p>\n
The mistakes have been frequent and wide-ranging; there\u2019s perhaps no better indication of Chelsea\u2019s downfall under their stewardship than Champions League-winning world-class manager Thomas Tuchel being in place when they arrived and their latest appointment being a former Hull City and Strasbourg boss.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Ranking 24 BlueCo mistakes at Chelsea as Rosenior appointment joins three sackings<\/strong><\/p>\n Liam Rosenior was their fifth permanent manager in four years. Pochettino was the third, following Graham Potter, before he left the club by mutual consent to be replaced by Enzo Maresca at the end of the 2023\/24 season.<\/p>\n Poch led Chelsea to sixth, to an FA Cup semi-final and the Carabao Cup final, and it was a surprise to see him leave the club after what had been an uptick in performances and results at the end of the season.<\/p>\n On the latest episode of The Overlap<\/em>, Pochettino<\/strong> predictably hit out at a BlueCo plan which left him without the \u201cexperience\u201d required to win high-pressure games and made what is somehow a shocking but also entirely unsurprising revelation about his grasp of the Chelsea blueprint.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I understood didn\u2019t happen after,\u201d he admitted, before urging BlueCo to \u201cexplain the plan\u201d to the people that need to understand it. Y\u2019know, like the head coach of the football team.<\/p>\n Pochettino added: \u201cI think they have a plan, it\u2019s completely different to what was Chelsea in the past with (Roman) Abramovich. It\u2019s true that it\u2019s not easy because it\u2019s difficult for people to understand.<\/p>\n \u201cIn a new project, I am thinking, \u2018how can we show the plan and what can we achieve with that\u2019. Sometimes in football it\u2019s difficult to explain because the only people that listen are in the boardroom, but there are too many people making decisions. Football is not an ordinary business and sometimes people struggle. But I think they (Chelsea\u2019s owners) need to explain the plan.<\/p>\n \u201cChelsea was about winning, you can\u2019t go in there and finish in a certain position and accept it. It was about winning. In the past, they won Champions Leagues, had the best and most experienced players. But that was a completely different project. The people need to explain the plan and how it\u2019s different.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we arrived the team was 12th in the Premier League, we didn\u2019t play in Europe, we was in the process between one ownership group to another and there were things we needed to put in place.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy I think I am disappointed with things internally is that under our assessment and our vision, it was a normal process to create something solid for the future. We wanted to add quality but not as quick as the people wanted to go.<\/p>\n \u201cWe finished sixth winning the last five or six games, we arrived to the final of the Carabao Cup, we played Manchester City in the semi-final of the FA Cup, in both games we deserved to win. But because of experience we didn\u2019t win. I felt we were in a good trajectory and our vision was heading in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n A stark warning if it was needed for Andoni Iraola<\/strong> or whichever other poor sap is set to be in charge at Stamford Bridge next season.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n